Foolscap folio, 19 pp.; Later half roan, spine lettered in gilt.An excellent copy of a rare report, printing a decade of major dispatches from New South Wales Governors on the subjects of the Aborigines of New South... More

Octavo, original purple cloth (a bit flecked), interleaved with lined blanks.This copy is inscribed by the author to Australian pastoralist Henry White, whose racehorses were acclaimed on the Australian turf, with winners in the 1896 Australian Jockey Club Derby and 1900 Doncaster.More

Sydney: James Reading, n.d. but, 1841. Duodecimo, 24 pp.; original plain blue paper wrappers.Very scarce Sydney printing of the Reverend Adams' lecture on the Sabbath. Adams, a seaman's chaplain, delivered this sermon in the Scot's Church, Sydney on 25 July 1841. It was the second in a series of... More

Two volumes, with both half-titles; contemporary mottled calf, flat spines gilt and with double red and green morocco labels.A fine and attractively bound set of voyages collected and edited for the enlightenment of younger... More

Melbourne: J. H. Moulines and Co. for the Committee of the 'Admella', November 1859.

Iconic Australian shipping disaster

Octavo, frontispiece and folding map; in original blind blocked plum cloth with dramatic gilt vignette to front board bearing the slogan 'Hope to the Last.'.Only edition: the harrowing tale of the... More

Foolscap folio, 36, [iv] pp., last blank, large folding map; wrappers thumbed.Uncommon: official report of the Commission tasked to investigate the appalling loss of the steamship Admella off the coast of South Australia in 1859. The tragedy marks... More

Three volumes bound in one, small octavo; some wear to the edges of the boards and a library reference at head of spine, an attractive copy in contemporary quarter calf.A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to... More

Three volumes bound in one, small octavo; in contemporary marbled sheep preserved in folding cloth case.A rare Portuguese imaginary voyage to Australia, not recorded by most of the commentators on the genre. In... More

Octavo, [iv], 114 (paginated in Old Slavonic); old quarter sheep with marbled boards.Rare: evangelical text translated into the Aleut language (and printed in Cyrillic), prepared by Ivan Veniaminov-Popov (1797-1879), the great Orthodox missionary to the northern Pacific. Veniaminov was educated in... More

Octavo, folding frontispiece map with outline colouring, xl, 220 pp., (including directory and advertisements), with a folding table of goods and prices bound in; in plain brown cloth (if not original certainly of the period).A... More

Octavo, 150, xii pp., original printed limp linen wrappers; folding Sangorski quarter brown morocco case.Ferguson notes this is the second South Australian almanac. The work includes the important and very early botanical series of lectures by George... More

Octavo, with 48 plates and two colour maps, original green cloth with attractive gilt blocked kangaroo motif.An excellent copy of this generously illustrated survey of Australia's agriculture and natural resources by the long-serving secretary of the Swedish Society... More

Octavo, folding map and folding plate, illustrated throughout; in original illustrated brown cloth, flyleaf inscribed and signed by the author.Signed presentation copy in original illustrated cloth, detailing the audacious solo transatlantic crossing of William... More

Paris: Plon, 1893. Octavo, folding map; a good copy, uncut in the original blue-grey wrappers,First edition: this is an especially good account of Hawaii at the end of the nineteenth century, by a French diplomat, written under the pseudonym Georges Sauvin. D'Anglade was French Consul and Commissioner to Hawaii... More

Quarto, folding map; black half roan, with the bookplate of Henry White.An essential First Fleet book, widely considered the best guide to the establishment of a penal colony in New South Wales: 'an extremely interesting work and an... More

Octavo, with two folding handcoloured maps; bound in contemporary marbled boards (rebacked retaining original crimson label) from the Westport House library with Browne family armorial bookplate.Published on the eve of the departure of the First Fleet for New... More

Octavo, with two folding maps, finely hand coloured in outline, modern half calf, marbled boards.First edition. Published on the eve of the departure of the First Fleet for New South Wales, this sometimes neglected publication was the most... More

Duodecimo, 25 engraved plates (all hand coloured); mottled pink wrappers.First edition of this fascinating French physiognomical study of the peoples of the world, which compares the facial structures and features of various European races... More

Folio, 6 pages plus integral blank; folded to docket size with manuscript annotation "Admiralty New Instructions relating to Surgeons"A scarce and desirable relic of eighteenth-century naval life: an official printed order from the Admiralty concerning... More

Bifolium; franked.Original newspaper containing exciting news of Anson's buccaneering windfall: 'that Commodore Anson has taken eight rich Prizes, and after ravaging the Coast, departed about the middle of April for the East Indies; that he has two Ships with him... More

Octavo, with an engraved portrait frontispiece and four folding engraved plates; contemporary speckled calf, old rebacking.The rarest of two pirated accounts of the Anson voyage to appear in print in 1744, marking the hugely celebrated... More